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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Does anyone have any better way of doing page numbers other than ADE? I don't care for the Kindle way as it requires a second file. ADE page numbers do not. Radius said it better that ADE page numbers are easier to deal with than locations.
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Jon, you are conflating two things. You only need a second file, in MOBI format, if you plan to do "real" page numbers. Why Amazon went with the Locations methodology that they did, I have no idea, but redoing that into a simpler pages format, based on somehting like 250-300 words/page wouldn't be impossible. Not if Amazon wanted to do it that way.
Page mapping is really only for RPNs. Nothing else.
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Remember, the criteria for eBook page numbers has to be that changing settings cannot change the page numbers. So font, font size, line-height, margins, etc. cannot change the page numbers otherwise, the page number are worthless.
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I don't think that anyone has suggested that, have they? Everyone here agrees, as far as I've seen, that it
should be set on something simple and normal, like
characters. I have no issue with the idea that it should be basically 1500 chars. (a page, roughly, is 250 "words" of 5 characters each [1250 characters] plus one space per word, [1250 characters + 250 word spaces of 1 space each = 1500 chars]). To me, that would make sense.
Which, of course, means it shall never--ever--happen.
Hitch